scarveless

From the inflected stem of scarf (plural scarves) +‎ -less. Compare leaveless.

scarveless (not comparable)

1. Rare form of scarfless.
   • 1929, J[ohn] B[ennion] Booth, “The Old Halls”, in London Town, London: T[homas] Werner Laurie […], →OCLC, page 95:

     The scene of his exploits was a minute Liverpool music-hall; a place in which the “collars” needed no pass-out checks, but were trusted on their gentility and conspicuousness, while the scarved and scarveless, being in the vast majority, and indistinguishable in type, were scrupulously handed well-worn bits of pasteboard on their frequent expeditions in search of better liquor at cheaper prices.

   • 1974, Patricia Sweeney, “Untitled”, in America Sings, Los Angeles, Calif.: National Poetry Press, →OCLC, page 54:

     Blue clouds slide west; a raw wind scrapes the scarveless necks of old men clenching black coats about their knees.

   • 2002 July 17, habshi, “Scarveless Muslim girls forced back into fire”, in soc.culture.arabic‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 May 2025
   • 2020 August 29, Michael D. O’Kelly, “My Last Magic Hat”, in POP: Poetries on Purpose – Prescience of Passage, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, “Some Tales Along the Trail” section:

     Always a Rabbit on cue in that Hat: / Black, brown, white, mixed colors – eveready / For centuries. Then, the command was lost, / The baton broken, and deeper reachings / Found nothing there. Scarves stopped all together. / Long it made us glad with easy magic. / A global museum wonder piece, now. / Alas, for many a quite rabbitless, / Scarveless remnant of past conjurations.